Alternative to embedding a font in as3

Question

I have quite a basic question to ensure I am not missing something obvious!

Does anyone know of an alternative to embedding fonts? I am developing a global app wh

Answer 1

You can do this by embeding the font in external SWF files.

for example you have:

Arial_EN.swf

Arial_RU.swf

Arial_JP.swf

Arial_DE.swf

Then in your configuration file you a defining which swf to load. After you load SWF

swf/Arial_DE.swf
    

    bold
    bold_italic
    italic
    regular

Load the swf:

var fontLoader:Loader = new Loader ();
//all the eventlistener and functions for it
fontLoader.load ( xml.font.path )`

After you load the swf and you have the style names just register the font, if you will be using embedFonts=true option

Font.registerFont ( fontLoader.getClass ( xml.font.style ) );